Shortly after Winthrop Rockefeller moved from New York to Petit Jean near Morrilton Arkansas, he started his Winrock Farms cow raising business. Graham Hawks would become a fairly frequent and welcomed visitor at his friend’s Arkansas home. Hawks and his…
The USS Henrico was traveling through the Okinawa area along with the 77th Division attack group. Rockefeller was playing cards and Hawks was sitting around the executive officer’s room when, as Hawks recounts, “All of a sudden there was a…
It was in the Pacific Theatre of World War II that Graham Hawks and Winthrop Rockefeller would meet and become good friends. They were both at a military officer’s school when Hawks saw Rockefeller talking around with others. Hawks approached…
Graham Hawks was a soldier in World War II when he met fellow soldier Winthrop Rockefeller. Surviving the war, the two men would maintain a lifelong friendship.
Following graduation from AM&N College, William “Sonny” Walker went on to work as a teacher, leader, and administrator at Horace Mann High School (Now Horace Mann Magnet Middle School). Horace Mann is located in East Little Rock off of…
William “Sonny” Walker held a great reverence for family. His father was a Baptist Minister and he encouraged Sonny to have close relationships with fellow church members who became like extended families to him. After graduating from college, Sonny…
William “Sonny” Walker, native of Arkansas and graduate of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was a civil rights activist and an accomplished public servant.
